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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.- C. S. Lewis

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in.Aim at earth and you get neither.- C. S. Lewis

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy,like art...It has no survival value; rather it is one of thosethings that give value to survival.- C. S. Lewis

The future is something which everyone reaches at therate of 60 minutes an hour,whatever he does, whoever he is.- C. S. Lewis

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen:not only because I see it,but because by it I see everything else.- C. S. Lewis

When we see the face of Godwe shall know that we have always known it.He has been a party to, has made, sustainedand moved moment by moment within,all our earthly experiences of innocent love.- C. S. Lewis

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird:it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn tofly while remaining an egg.We are like eggs at present.And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary,decent egg.We must be hatched or go bad.- C. S. Lewis

With the possible exception of the equator,everything begins somewhere.- C. S. Lewis

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.- C. S. Lewis

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.- C. S. Lewis

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusingto worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word,'darkness' on the walls of his cell.- C. S. Lewis

Reason is the natural order of truth;but imagination is the organ of meaning.- C. S. Lewis

Has this world been so kind to you that you shouldleave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.- C. S. Lewis

What saves a man is to take a step.Then another step.- C. S. Lewis

Experience: that most brutal of teachers.But you learn, my God do you learn.- C. S. Lewis

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannotbe too careful of his reading.- C. S. Lewis

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself,because it is not there.There is no such thing.- C. S. Lewis

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.- C. S. Lewis

Long before history began we men have got togetherapart from the women and done things.We had time.- C. S. Lewis

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.- C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one -the gentle slope,soft underfoot, without sudden turnings,without milestones, without signposts.- C. S. Lewis

The real problem is not why some pious,humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.- C. S. Lewis

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.- C. S. Lewis

We are what we believe we are.- C. S. Lewis

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.- C. S. Lewis

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.- C. S. Lewis

You don't have a soul.You are a Soul.You have a body.- C. S. Lewis

This is one of the miracles of love:It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantmentsand yet not being disenchanted.- C. S. Lewis

The task of the modern educatoris not to cut down jungles,but to irrigate deserts.- C.S. Lewis

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.- C. S. Lewis

Education without values, as useful as it is,seems rather to make man a more clever devil.- C. S. Lewis

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised forthe good of its victims may be the most oppressive.- C. S. Lewis

Christianity, if false, is of no importance,and if true, of infinite importance.The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.- C. S. Lewis

Courage is not simply one of the virtues,but the form of every virtue at the testing point.- C. S. Lewis

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperityor middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.- C. S. Lewis

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God,"Thy will be done," and those to whom God says,"All right, then, have it your way."- C. S. Lewis

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexestill an entire marriage reconciles them.- C. S. Lewis

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparingto go to sleep in humility,thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards,in an infinitely higher state than one who is listeningto Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.- C. S. Lewis

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road,progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road;in that case,the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.- C. S. Lewis

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot preventus and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence,it is only logical to cut up imbeciles,criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.- C. S. Lewis

If the whole universe has no meaning,we should never have found out that it has no meaning:just as,if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes,we should never know it was dark.Dark would be without meaning.- C. S. Lewis

Don't use words too big for the subject.Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very";otherwise you'll have no word left when you want totalk about something really infinite.- C. S. Lewis

If you read history you will find that the Christianswho did most for the present world were precisely thosewho thought most of the next.It is since Christians have largely ceased to thinkof the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.- C. S. Lewis

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end;if you look for comfort you will not get either comfortor truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin,and in the end, despair.- C. S. Lewis

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regardthem as a defect of faith but they are afflictions,not sins.Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them,our share in the passion of Christ.- C. S. Lewis

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.'People say different things:so do instincts.Our instincts are at war...Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to begratified at the expense of the rest.- C. S. Lewis

Part of every misery is, so to speak,the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that youdon't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking aboutthe fact that you suffer.I not only live each endless day in grief,but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.- C. S. Lewis

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides;and in this respect,it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.- C. S. Lewis

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers aboutoriginality will ever be original:whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (withoutcaring twopence how often it has been told before) you will,nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.- C. S. Lewis